Country size comparison

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New Jersey is about 5 times smaller than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 18.65% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~392,404 people (9.2 million more people live in New Jersey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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